Wallet thief left his own wallet at crime scene, cops say

Stephen Eric Maxwell, 47, is accused of meeting women in bars and restaurants in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, then stealing wallets from their purses when the women got distracted, reports the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

His luck ran out last Saturday.

After chatting up a woman at the Village Pump, the woman left to dance with someone else. As she looked over from the dance floor she saw Maxwell going through her purse, according to cops.

The woman ran over to confront Maxwell, but he fled the bar but had left his own wallet with the picture ID inside, accordint to the report.

There was also other evidence: The bar's closed circuit TV showed him allegedly reaching into the woman's purse.